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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Contemporary British Naïve Style Animal Oil Painting - Golden Leopard
Contemporary British Naïve Style Animal Oil Painting - Golden Leopard

Contemporary British Naïve Style Animal Oil Painting - Golden Leopard

Located in Bristol, GB

GOLDEN LEOPARD Size: 38 x 48 cm (including frame) Oil on board A charming contemporary naïve style painting, executed in oil onto panel by British artist Matt Rix. The composition ...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Antique view of Rome with an aqueduct spanning the Tiber
Antique view of Rome with an aqueduct spanning the Tiber

Antique view of Rome with an aqueduct spanning the Tiber

By Richard Earlom

Located in Middletown, NY

London: Boydell, 1810. Aquatint with engraving printed in sepia on cream wove paper with a partial 1805 watermark, 6 x 9 1/2 (153 x 242 mm); sheet 10 3/8 x 14 1/8 inches (264 x 360 ...

Category

Early 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Antique American Impressionist Coastal Dock Landscape Original Oil Painting
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Dock Landscape Original Oil Painting

Antique American Impressionist Coastal Dock Landscape Original Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American impressionist wpa era oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 14 by 18 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone.Excellent condition, ready to hang ...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Goofy (Walt Disney Productions Cartoon Animator)
Goofy (Walt Disney Productions Cartoon Animator)

Goofy (Walt Disney Productions Cartoon Animator)

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Dick Ruhl (American, 1926-1991) Original Gouache Painting of Goofy, one of three images created specifically for Disney Interview portfolio, Los Angeles 1943. (see reference in bio below). Image measuring 12 x 18 inches. Signed & dated 1943 lower right. Framed measurement: 19 x 25 inches. Dick Ruhl was the grandson of German immigrants who settled in Nebraska as farmers brought to the US by the federal government to raise food for a growing population after the Civil War. On his mother’s side, his family dates back to Nathan Hale. Her father was in the Union Army and given a small farm by the government near Guthrie, Oklahoma. Dick’s parents, John and Lucille, were married in Chandler in 1902, and his dad got a job with the Frisco Railroad. Since the main yard and a hub were in Sapulpa, they moved here, initially settling at Elm and Lee street, but later they bought five acres at 1300 Cleveland and built a simple home with a water well, outdoor toilet, and coal oil lamps. Dick is a Sapulpa native who left his hometown at 16 to become an animator during the “golden age” of Disney Studios. Photo courtesy of Sapulpa Historical Society. Dick finally came along in 1926 and was born in the Sapulpa City Hospital at Division and Cleveland Streets. According to Dick, his doctor, William Polk Longmire—a famous Sapulpan in his own right—named Dick after himself on his birth certificate, listing Dick’s name as “Polk Knox Ruhl.” It wasn’t until 1937 that it was discovered and changed to James Richard Ruhl. Dick was doing farm chores at 5 years old, mostly feeding the animals and milking the cow. Every evening, he delivered milk to his last customer, a cousin named “Nellie,” whom Dick says was a bootlegger. Dick recalls one evening as he put Nellie’s milk in her icebox, a handsome gentleman named Charlie took him up on his lap. “He was wearing a gun, which impressed me,” Dick said, adding that Charlie gave him a shiny half dollar as a gift. “Each evening I rushed to Nellie’s, hoping to meet Charlie again, until one evening, she told me he would never be back.” Nellie showed Dick the evening Sapulpa Herald announcing that Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd had been killed. Dick started school at 5 years old and said his teacher “loved and whipped me through first grade.” It must have done some good because he was able to skip the 2nd grade. In 3rd grade, his teacher, Miss Giles, had her students draw a house. “I don’t know why, but I drew my house in perfect perspective,” Dick said. “She bragged about my talent and it was then I decided to become a great artist.” Dick turned a small chicken house at his parents’ farm into his first studio and gallery. “My clients were ducks, chickens, and an occasional pig,” he said. As the country fell into the Great Depression, Dick said “it didn’t mean anything to me. We raised our food and Dad eked out a small wage on the railroad. Mom made our clothes from feed sacks purchased at Lee Nevin’s Feed Store, and we had credit at Bodkin’s Grocery, House’s Grocery, and Katz Department Store.” It was in High School that Dick began to really pursue his creative talents again. “The WPA sponsored an art class at the library in the basement,” he said. “My algebra teacher let me attend the art class instead of algebra.” Dick said his art teacher was Henry Simpson—a retired Western artist from Ft. Worth— and another teacher named Mrs. Casteel, whom Dick said “gave me the greatest advice I have ever learned: ‘Don’t think you’re all that good! You’ll meet artists who are better than you, but don’t get discouraged, keep doing your thing.’” Disney comes calling Dick was working at the Criterion Theatre in Sapulpa when Disney released “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs...

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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Chalk, Gouache

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Gathered Harvest
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Gathered Harvest

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Gathered Harvest

Located in Bristol, GB

GATHERED HARVEST Size: 52 x 61 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A charming mid-century still life that captures a carefully arranged collection of apples, ceramic ware, and draped...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino Original Vintage Movie Film Poster
Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino Original Vintage Movie Film Poster

Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino Original Vintage Movie Film Poster

Located in London, GB

Reservoir Dogs 1992 Original Vintage Poster Condition excellent Original UK vintage poster release UNFRAMED (framing options available see examples) Featuring the famous cast of the iconic Quentin...

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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Color

"Hungry Elephant" by Fox Photos

"Hungry Elephant" by Fox Photos

Located in London, GB

"Hungry Elephant" by Fox Photos An elephant named Mae West accepts an apple from a passing tram driver while taking her morning exercise along Gray's ...

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1930s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Japanese Dragon Mixed Media on Paper, 20th Century
Japanese Dragon Mixed Media on Paper, 20th Century

Japanese Dragon Mixed Media on Paper, 20th Century

Located in Sant Celoni, ES

Japanese Dragon – Mixed Media on Paper – 93 × 52 cm Mixed media on paper. Signed with Japanese characters and an additional inscription. Artwork: 75.5 × 34 cm (29.7 × 13.4 in.). Fram...

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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Vintage American Modernist Signed Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Vintage American Modernist Signed Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting

Vintage American Modernist Signed Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 13 by 25 inches overall. Handsomely framed in...

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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Interior View - 20th Century Modern British Domestic Interior Oil Painting
Interior View - 20th Century Modern British Domestic Interior Oil Painting

Interior View - 20th Century Modern British Domestic Interior Oil Painting

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Philip Matthews Interior View oil on board 49 x 30 cm 19 1/4 x 11 3/4 in unsigned Philip Matthews was a painter of portraits, landscapes and still-life in oils. He studied at Maiden...

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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Farmhouse in Autumn, Early 20th Century Landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray
Farmhouse in Autumn, Early 20th Century Landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray

Farmhouse in Autumn, Early 20th Century Landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray

Located in Soquel, CA

Farmhouse in Autumn, Early 20th Century Landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray A vibrant and colorful late 1920's landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray (Canadian, 1864-1938). This beautiful 1929 landscape depicts a quaint farmhouse in autumn, surrounded by a landscape full of fall foliage in goldenrod yellow, bright orange, and deep red, with soft purple hills receding into the distance. Signed "F. McGillivray" lower left. Displayed in a new Arts & Crafts style giltwood frame. Board size: 16"H x 20"W. Framed size: 19.25"H x 23.25"W x 1"D. McGillivray (1864–1938) garnered admiration for her modern landscape paintings, as well as for her mentorship of young artists, including Tom Thomson. She has been credited in some instances as an influence for what would later be known as the Group of Seven. A prolific sketcher and painter, Florence McGillivray...

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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Illustration Board

A mare and foal shading under the trees
A mare and foal shading under the trees

A mare and foal shading under the trees

By Arthur Spooner

Located in Stoke, Hampshire

Arthur Spooner (1873-1962) A mare and foal shading under the trees Signed lower right Oil on canvas board Painting size - 14 1/8 x 18 1/2 in Framed size - Arthur Spooner (1873–1962...

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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

L'Amazone, Modern Lithograph after Amedeo Modigliani

L'Amazone, Modern Lithograph after Amedeo Modigliani

By Amedeo Modigliani

Located in Long Island City, NY

Amedeo Modigliani, After, Italian (1884 - 1920) - L'Amazone, Year: of original: 1909, Medium: Lithograph, stamp signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 101/150, Size: 30.25 x 22....

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Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Oiseau
Oiseau

Oiseau

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

An authenticated work This ceramic piece has been authenticated by Paloma Ruiz-Picasso (the artist’s daughter) and Diana Widmaier-Picasso (the artist’s granddaughter) on December 9, ...

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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Modernist Still Life with Wine Bottle, Pear and Grapes, Signed Oil Painting
Modernist Still Life with Wine Bottle, Pear and Grapes, Signed Oil Painting

Modernist Still Life with Wine Bottle, Pear and Grapes, Signed Oil Painting

By Lison Favarger

Located in Genève, GE

A charming modernist still life depicting a carefully arranged composition of everyday objects, including a dark wine bottle, a drinking glass, a pear and a cluster of green grapes resting on a warm ochre-coloured plate. Set against a muted grey background, the composition is distinguished by its expressive brushwork, simplified forms and harmonious balance of warm and cool tones. The luminous yellow and orange hues of the pear provide a striking contrast to the subdued greys, creams and earthy colours surrounding it. The artist employs confident, spontaneous brushstrokes and a painterly approach to form, creating a sense of immediacy and freshness. The loosely defined contours and subtle variations in texture reflect the influence of Post-Impressionism and European modernist painting. The diagonal arrangement of the objects, particularly the bottle lying in the background and the dark-handled knife in the foreground, introduces movement and visual interest into this otherwise intimate and contemplative scene. Signed "Lison Favarger" in the lower left corner. An attractive example of 20th-century modernist still life painting, ideally suited to traditional, contemporary or mid-century modern interiors. modernist still life painting, vintage oil painting, wine bottle still life, pear and grapes painting, French modernist painting, European still life art, post impressionist still life, 20th century oil painting, signed still life painting, fruit still life, wine and fruit painting...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Cardboard, Oil

Detail of the Entrance Vault (bronze green), Engraving
Detail of the Entrance Vault (bronze green), Engraving

Detail of the Entrance Vault (bronze green), Engraving

Located in Paris, IDF

Henry CLEWS (1876–1937) Detail of the Entrance Vault, 1959 Engraving (transferred to copper by Bacons-Duplessis and André Collot) Unsigned Authenticated by Henry Clews’s studio stam...

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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Naess Sovereign, lithograph by Laurence Dunn
Naess Sovereign, lithograph by Laurence Dunn

Naess Sovereign, lithograph by Laurence Dunn

By Laurence Dunn

Located in London, GB

We acquired a series of marine works from Laurence Dunn's Archives. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." Laurence D...

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Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original 1942 Pour L'An II COMPAGNONS  Rooster vintage French poster
Original 1942 Pour L'An II COMPAGNONS  Rooster vintage French poster

Original 1942 Pour L'An II COMPAGNONS Rooster vintage French poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Professionally archival linen-backed vintage French poster: pour L'An II COMPAGONS Tous Unis Celebrons, Notre Pain, Notre Sang, Notre Terre. This full lithograph antique poster fe...

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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

“Contemplating Woman”
“Contemplating Woman”

“Contemplating Woman”

By Helene Sardeau

Located in Southampton, NY

Original and rare bronze sculpture of a young woman in contemplation by the well known American sculptor Helene Sardeau. Signed on the lower back “h. Sardeau” and dated 1928. Valsu...

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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Bronze

Marc Chagall "The Angel" lithograph
Marc Chagall "The Angel" lithograph

Marc Chagall "The Angel" lithograph

By Marc Chagall

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Chagall, Marc Title: The Angel Date: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 12.5" x 9.5" Signature: Unsigned Edition: Book Edition Literature: Mourlot 288 Publi...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

North on West Street (West Side Highway NYC Cityscape)
North on West Street (West Side Highway NYC Cityscape)

North on West Street (West Side Highway NYC Cityscape)

By De Hirsch Margules

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). North on West Street , 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15 x 22 inches. Framed measurement: 27 x 34 inched. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet. Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium" Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village. Early Life De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website. At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers. As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later. In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno). Artistic career In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting. Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe. Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter. In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa. Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that: the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment. Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow." It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day. In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel. Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings. While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends." Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York. With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting. In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works. In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation. "The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit] Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond. To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness." He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller. Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance. The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation. The writer and television personality Alexander King said I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean. King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets." Margules was such a memorable New York personality that comic book writer Alvin Schwartz imagined him at the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria in a risible yet poignant debate with Clark Kent about whether Superman had the ability to stop Hitler. Margules' entrenchment in the Greenwich Village milieu can be seen in a photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to discuss "The Funeral of the Beat Generation", in Robert Cordier [fr]'s railroad flat at 85 Christopher Street. Among the people in the same photograph are Shel Silverstein...

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1930s Modern Art

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Watercolor, Rag Paper

Darling - Photo by Gunnar Larsen - 1970s

Darling - Photo by Gunnar Larsen - 1970s

Located in Roma, IT

Darling is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s, by the photographer and magazine publisher Gunnar Larsen (1930-1990).  Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a hist...

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1970s Modern Art

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Photographic Paper

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